Arrival

The sea of fog surged.

The girl who descended from the sky had eyes filled with golden divine light, and the vast Source Qi emanating from her body swirled around her. She wore a black and white belted dress, making her look like a fairy who had descended to the mortal world.

Standing still and looking up, as the wind churns, one can occasionally glimpse the fair, flawless bare legs of a young girl beneath her skirt.

Faced with the questioning of this "washboard saintess," Xu Yuan naturally stepped forward, creating distance between himself and Xia Qing beside him, and smiled as he met her slightly cold gaze:

"I was just wondering where to look for you, and here you are!"

"Xu Changtian."

Tianyan's emotionless voice interrupted Xu Yuan's words, "I'm asking you, why are you with this woman?"

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When his attempt to change the subject failed, Xu Primordial Spirit froze for a moment, but he showed no sign of panic.

Just kidding, even if he and this auntie next to him were having an affair, he could easily fool her with that washboard, let alone the fact that they are Qingqing innocent and have nothing going on.

After a moment of contemplation, Xu Yuan stared at the celestial Tianyan suspended beneath the misty sky, stroked his chin, and grinned:

Are you concerned about my private life?

"Stop arguing with me!"

Tianyan raised an eyebrow, her voice tinged with annoyance. "Xu Changtian, don't forget, there's a limit to how much lust you can control. Just three days ago, this woman wanted to kill us!"

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Upon hearing this, a hint of surprise flashed in Xu Yuan's narrow, phoenix-shaped eyes.

The "washboard saintess" wasn't jealous; she was worried about his safety.

After all, judging from Xia Qing's previous use of the Bell-Tone Dark Domain, if he didn't have the support of Tianyan's Heavenly Eye Divine Technique, he would most likely lose his ability to resist instantly if he were enveloped in it.

Having thought of this, Xu Yuan already had a plan in mind, and chuckled as he transmitted his thoughts:

"What are you worried about? Haven't you experienced my methods yourself?"

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Tianyan blinked, a slight blush rising to his cheeks.

The method he used was, of course, drugging her; initially, she was tormented to the point of ecstasy by this bastard.

However, to be fair, with the combination of the Demon-Enchanting Cherry Blossom Poison and the bastard's Daoist essence, plus his meticulous mind, controlling someone wouldn't be too dangerous.

Thinking of this, Tianyan felt slightly relieved, but then his brows furrowed again as soon as he relaxed them.

His divine sense swept over the young woman in the red robe below, and his golden eyes immediately narrowed.

Having suffered from illness for seven years, she had become Demon-Enchanting Cherry Blossom Poison and immediately recognized the woman's condition.

The Source Qi is blocked, Will Soul are disturbed.

In other words, once the Charm Poison takes effect, the woman has absolutely no ability to resist it.

A slight unease Tianyan's heart, and his golden eyes subtly swept over the two people below.

He hadn't changed his clothes, and they appeared fairly neat. As for the woman...

Um?

Why are this old woman's clothes different from those we've seen before?

A tremor ran through him, Tianyan clenched his fist slightly beneath his sleeve, instinctively wanting to lash out, but the words caught in his throat.

She has no identity.

She had no authority to interfere in his private life to vent her dissatisfaction.

Biting his lip, Tianyan snorted coldly:

"The method is indeed quite good. I just didn't expect that our young master Xu would have such leisure and elegance even in such a dangerous situation, keeping such a woman by his side. It must have been more than three days, right?"

The girl's voice was like a clear, still pool, but it sounded somewhat strained at the end.

Well, I guess I'm still jealous.

Seeing the other person's awkward expression, Xu Yuan subconsciously wanted to tease them, but he held back.

The timing wasn't right; they were still in a precarious situation and it wasn't the right time for them to flirt.

At the very least, we need to deal with that Yingui below first.

Thinking it over, Xu Yuan chuckled, took a step, and appeared beside Tianyan, reaching out to embrace her slender waist.

Snap!

As expected, his hand was pried open.

Tianyan glared coldly, but his expression, combined with her exquisite and beautiful features, made him appear somewhat adorable.

Xu Yuan leaned closer, smiling as he stared at Tianyan's small face:

"Hey, do you really think I have such a twisted sense of humor?"

Tianyan glanced at him sideways, his expression indifferent:

"The pleasure of married women... I remember someone seemed quite excited when they first mentioned that term?"

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After a moment of silence, Xu Yuan stopped beating around the bush and said directly:

"After we escaped separately last time, I went back and reached an agreement with Xia Qing and Tang Ruofu. Apart from that, I have no other relationship with her."

Upon hearing this, the sourness in Tianyan's eyes vanished instantly, replaced by a glare as she asked sharply:

"Xu Changtian, are you crazy? You should have already witnessed Tang Ruofu's Dao Domain. How dare you turn back under those circumstances?!"

"Hmph."

Hearing her scolding, a warmth rose in Xu Yuan's eyes.

When a girl truly loves you, your safety is more important than anything else, even if you had suspicions of infidelity before.

He did not tell Tianyan about his plan to persuade Tang Ruofu and Xia Qing.

Having spent seven years together, he knew Tianyan's personality all too well.

Perhaps influenced by the ability of the Yantian Art to predict the future, Tianyan has always planned carefully before acting and has a deep-seated aversion to such high-risk investment preferences.

Given that Tang Ruofu had already displayed overwhelming strength, Tianyan would absolutely not tolerate him taking any risks.

He reached out and pulled the girl into his arms, and this time Tianyan did not resist.

Xu Yuan gently stroked Tianyan's smooth, long, straight black hair and chuckled softly:

"Don't worry, it worked! Ouch! Why are you pinching me?"

Tianyan gripped the soft flesh of his waist without any restraint, biting his lip and glaring at him with hatred in his eyes:

"Xu Yuan, why do you always have to make decisions on your own?! It was the same thing in Nine Flames City, it was the same thing at Huaiming Cliff, and now you're still doing it!"

Xu Yuan's expression was contorted with pain:

"Ouch, let go first. No, you have to listen to my explanation first."

Seeing the bastard's pained expression, Tianyan felt a surge of pleasure. A smile played on his lips as he twisted the soft flesh around the bastard's waist a full 360 degrees.

"Okay, I'll let go once you've explained."

"Hiss, Tianyan, you fucking cough, okay, here's what happened."

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In the White Frost Forest covered by the freezing cold, Xu Yuan's intermittent explanations could be heard for a moment.

After explaining the whole story, a short while had passed.

Xu Yuan's cheeks were flushed red from the pain, while Tianyan's face remained calm.

This "washboard saintess" held nothing back, not only using her Source Qi but also seemingly secretly employing the Heavenly Word Mantra.

"Then Tang Ruofu went to assassinate that holy maiden, that's roughly it. Can we let go now?"

"Hmph."

Tianyan a soft snort, withdrew his hand from his waist, pondered for a moment, and then suddenly asked:

"So, nothing happened between you and that woman down there in the past three days?"

"What?"

Xu Yuan rubbed the soft, purple flesh on his waist and said irritably, "Go ask her yourself if you want to know."

Upon hearing Tianyan, Tianyan glanced with his golden eyes at Xia Qing below.

They locked eyes for a moment,

Xia Qing's eyes were alluring, she bit her lip, blushed, and looked away.

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No, Auntie, your husband's life is still hanging in the balance, how can you be thinking about playing these games?

While silently criticizing, Xu Yuan directly retorted loudly:

"Tianyan, if you don't believe me, just strip this woman naked and check her. She can't resist anyway."

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"Alright, that's enough."

Tianyan sighed and said in a low voice, "Now that a cooperation has been reached, don't make things difficult for this older sister."

After hearing about what had happened, she realized what Xu Yuan wanted to do.

If the plan goes smoothly, it can both cripple one of the Holy Maidens of the Heavenly Oversight Pavilion and create another pair of "Jing He and Yuchu" being hunted down by the Heavenly Oversight Pavilion Heavenly Oversight Pavilion, thus drawing their attention to some extent.

If they fail, they will simply get rid of Xia Qing without any risk.

As he spoke, Tianyan glanced at Xu Yuan and whispered:

"Xu Yuan, go and deal with that Yingui down there."

"Why aren't you going?" Xu Yuan rolled his eyes, still resentful about how she had pinched him earlier.

Tianyan, Tianyan's eyes held a smile, and he said:

"In the past three days, I've encountered seven high-level Yingui, which has depleted my Earth Source Qi and made the Charm Poison in my body almost uncontrollable. If you want to take me and Xia Qing, these two burdens, with you, I can help you."

Hearing her half-joking words, a serious look flashed in Xu Yuan's eyes.

Compared to cultivators of the same level, Yingui are generally weaker. However, unlike cultivators who can only comprehend the Dao Domain Mortal Shedding realm, Yingui can generate their own Ghost Domain when they advance to the level of Grandmaster cultivator.

Therefore, the most troublesome aspect for cultivators in dealing with high-level Yingui is not how to kill them, but how to extract their true form from their Ghost Domain.

However, under the "small-scale penetration" cheat of Tianyan's Tianyan Eye Divine Soul, the true form of the Yingui had nowhere to hide.

Despite this restraint, Tianyan still managed to expend a significant amount of his Source Qi to fight back.

Those seven Yingui are probably all at the Origin Beginning Level.

Encountering a high-level Yingui once on the outskirts of All Swords Valley can be considered a coincidence, but seven consecutive coincidences make it seem inevitable.

Thinking it over, Xu Yuan slowly drew his three-foot-long Qingfeng sword from his Sumeru Ring.

He is now certain that he and Tianyan have been targeted by something deep within All Swords Valley because of something.

even,

That entity had been watching them from the shadows for some time.

With a thought flashing through his mind, Xu Yuan's figure vanished from the spot, stirring up a gust of wind on the ground.

When he reappeared, he was already in front of the Yingui that had been struck by the "Slay" mantra.

To the naked eye, it appears to be a humanoid, misty creature.

However, when the Will Soul swept over it, the other party's appearance completely changed, becoming ferocious and terrifying.

Like its Ghost Domain aura, this Yingui had long hair and no face. Its body was covered in ice crystals, and its skin, frozen like an ice sculpture, was bluish-purple. Its withered limbs were twisted and deformed.

Judging from his aura, it wasn't particularly strong, somewhere between Grandmaster and Origin Beginning. However, Tianyan's "Slash" mantra had clearly weakened his aura considerably.

It wasn't until Xu Yuan drew his sword that the Yingui belatedly realized what was happening and lunged at him with a fierce howl.

The overflowing chill and the Ink Sword that cut through the air intertwined for a moment, stirring up ripples of cold air, before returning to calm in an instant.

This high-level Yingui, resembling a frozen ghost, was unable to resist and was pinned to the ground by Xu Yuan's sword, its throat sealed shut.

Strangely, even though its neck had been pierced by a three-foot-long sword, the Yingui still hadn't lost its ability to move.

Xu Yuan frowned slightly upon seeing this, and the next moment, Xia Qing's voice, reminding him, echoed faintly from the tree trunk in mid-air:

"Jing He, high-level Yingui do not possess the lethal organ of a human cultivator's sea of consciousness or Dantian. To completely kill them, the only way is to obliterate their souls."

As the words fell,

"Hey hahaha."

With a chilling chuckle, the Yingui on the ground, its neck pierced, suddenly moved.

With a ripping sound, the Yingui moved its body half a foot to the left.

His cervical spine was instantly torn apart by the sharp blade, half of his neck was ripped open, and his head tilted to the side, with only a few bits of skin and flesh connecting his head and body.

Seeing this bloody and bizarre scene before him, Xu Yuan did not hesitate at all, and his sword slashed down along the other man's neck.

The three-foot-long green sword, infused with Source Qi, sliced Yingui in front of him in two as easily as cutting tofu.

Black blood and rotting entrails were scattered all over the ground, but even so, the Yingui did not lose its ability to move. Its two halves of body entangled with Xu Yuan's sharp sword that could cut through iron like mud, just like maggots.

Xu Yuan frowned slightly, loosened his grip on the sword hilt, and leaped backward with a powerful stomp of his foot.

It's a little-known fact that you shouldn't let Yingui touch your body.

As Yingui formed from a mixture of negative emotions, once these spirits come into contact with the body, the Will Soul are easily corrupted by the negative emotions they contain.

Commonly known as "ghostification".

After creating distance, Xu Yuan circulated his internal Source Qi, and his energy suddenly burst forth, with a burst of flame rising from the blade of the Qingfeng sword that had slipped from his hand.

Jing He's Pure Yang Body, in a sense, also has a restraining effect on Yingui.

The scorching flames belonging to the Pure Yang Body rose and leaped on the Qingfeng sword blade, and in an instant spread to the soul of the Yingui whose body was covered by ice crystals. The twisted and strange laughter that the Yingui originally emitted instantly turned into a painful wail.

After only a few breaths of fighting, the Yingui, who was at the half-step Origin Beginning, was already on the verge of death.

When the Ghost Domain is destroyed and the true form is discovered, the terrifying Yingui, which are like nightmares to mortals, are nothing more than toys in the hands of cultivators of the same level.

With such a fatal flaw, it's no wonder that these Yingui in later generations ended up being kept as pets by humans.

With these thoughts in mind, Xu Yuan vanished from his spot in an instant, returning to Tianyan and Xia Qing's side, gazing down at the Yingui struggling in the scorching flames.

Xia Qing suddenly spoke again at this moment:

"Jing He, Tianyan, let's leave here for now."

"What?" Xu Yuan asked in confusion, pointing to the Qingfeng sword stuck in the Yingui's body. "I haven't retrieved my sword yet."

Xia Qing's eyes held a hint of a smile as she explained in a low voice:

"Our Moon-Inviting Sect has dealt with these Yingui for hundreds of years. Before a high-level Yingui perishes, it will spread an extremely strong negative emotion, permanently polluting and changing the temperament of the surrounding creatures. This emotion may be fear, bloodlust, or even lust."

Upon hearing this, Xu Yuan immediately turned his gaze to Tianyan.

[You killed so many people before, why didn't you tell me about this?]

Tianyan remained calm and indifferent, and snorted:

"I don't know, this stuff doesn't work on me."

Alright, it's the Yantian Art again.

Xu Yuan's lips twitched, but he did understand why the Heavenly Oversight Pavilion was unwilling to eradicate the enormous Ghost Mist of the All Swords Valley.

Killing them yields no benefit and inflicts a permanent debuff.

Thinking about it, Xu Yuan sighed, glanced at his three-foot-long Qingfeng sword that he had used for several years, and said softly:

"Let's leave here first, and come back to pick it up later."

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The words were cut short before they could be finished.

The air seemed to freeze.

Xu Yuan suddenly noticed a slender figure in a black dress appear beside the Yingui.

Her appearance was quite abrupt.

Under the watchful eyes of the three,

The woman in the black dress slowly walked to the side of the Yingui on the verge of its soul dissipating, drew the sharp blade from its neck, and toyed with it in her palm for a moment.

Then,

She held the sword blade and slowly turned her eyes back.

Those golden eyes.

A pair of azure golden eyes, identical to those of the Tianyan.

Tianye stared at Xu Yuan, who stood atop a tree trunk a hundred feet away, a smile on his face:

"Jing He, shall I get it for you?"

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